The dollar-rupee conversion is not always a straight calculation, especially when there are issues of lifestyle and career growth to be taken into account. $300k is more than Rs 90 lakh mathematically but a Redditor said he's unable to make up his mind whether he should move to the US on a $300k offer in San Jose or whether he should continue in Bengaluru, where he is getting Rs 90 LPA. For context, he said that it would not be on an H-1B visa but an L-1, in which he will be transferred from India to the US to work for the same company. It's a startup that he had been working for for around two years. He added that he is a 36-year-old married man with no loans, no kids -- and his wife works part-time.
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